Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-21 Thread John Kulig
, 2012 10:31:36 AM Subject: Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya Hi My last brief comment: 1. No matter how odd an area of research might sound, one must be cautious in drawing simplistic conclusions about its theoretical or empirical utility. Otherwise, we are likely to hear more

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-21 Thread Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.
On Dec 19, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Jim Clark wrote: Sorry to hear about Phil Rushton having died. Despite his more notorious ideas and his appearing on Geraldo... I've been catching up on TIPS posts today. Jim mentioned Rushton's appearance on Geraldo, which occurred on February 16th, 1989,

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-21 Thread Mike Palij
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:52:55 -0800, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. wrote: On Dec 19, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Jim Clark wrote: Sorry to hear about Phil Rushton having died. Despite his more notorious ideas and his appearing on Geraldo... I've been catching up on TIPS posts today. Jim mentioned Rushton's

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-21 Thread Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.
On Dec 21, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Mike Palij wrote: Did your advisor and Rushton compare the size of their penes? I doubt they had such an intimate Hemingway-Fitzgerald moment. And I know that associations between penis length and the length of other possible correlates (e.g., shoe size; Shah

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-21 Thread Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.
On Dec 21, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Mike Palij wrote: *rolls eyes* Quoting from the Wikipedia entry on the Pioneer Fund: |he Pioneer Fund is an American non-profit foundation established in 1937 |to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences. Until his |death on 2 October

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-20 Thread Mike Palij
Now that's odd. In the early 2000s I received unsolicited in the mail a copy of Rushton's paperback Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective (2nd Special Abridged Edition). I just checked the index and there is no mention of altruism. In contrast, there are 14 entries for

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-20 Thread Jim Clark
Hi My last brief comment: 1. No matter how odd an area of research might sound, one must be cautious in drawing simplistic conclusions about its theoretical or empirical utility. Otherwise, we are likely to hear more politicians making fun of science grants. Penis size, for example, is of

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-20 Thread Mike Palij
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 07:31:51 -0800, Jim Clark wrote: Hi My last brief comment: Well, okay. 1. No matter how odd an area of research might sound, one must be cautious in drawing simplistic conclusions about its theoretical or empirical utility. Agreed. Then again, when researchers use

[tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-19 Thread Mike Palij
A research article in the journal Neuron argues that it is incorrect to think of intelligence as being a represented by a single underlying factor, usually referred to as g. Instead, it is asserted that g is an artifact of interacting distinct brain areas engaged in different types of

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-19 Thread Jim Clark
Hi I know the following will be viewed dubiously (by Mike P at least), coming from a Canadian and one with University of Western Ontario (aka Western University Canada, another story) connections, but here goes anyway. The short summary states: No one component, or IQ, explained everything.

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-19 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
Actually, Rushton passed away fairly recently..Scott Sent from my iPhone On Dec 19, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Jim Clark j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca wrote: Hi I know the following will be viewed dubiously (by Mike P at least), coming from a Canadian and one with University of Western Ontario (aka Western

RE: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-19 Thread Rick Froman
) Subject: Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya Hi I know the following will be viewed dubiously (by Mike P at least), coming from a Canadian and one with University of Western Ontario (aka Western University Canada, another story) connections, but here goes anyway. The short summary

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-19 Thread Jim Clark
Hi Not much prediction necessary when Mike P writes: (2) the researchers are Canadians, eh, which should worry everyone. ;-) As for Authoritarianism, perhaps it is hierarchical in nature with some general component running throughout Auth measures, and specific facets measured by subscales.

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-19 Thread Mike Palij
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:26:32 -0800, Jim Clark wrote: Hi Not much prediction necessary when Mike P writes: (2) the researchers are Canadians, eh, which should worry everyone. ;-) Oh okay, I'll stop giving you guys a hard time. As for Authoritarianism, perhaps it is hierarchical in nature with

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-19 Thread Jim Clark
Hi Sorry to hear about Phil Rushton having died. Despite his more notorious ideas and his appearing on Geraldo, he probably deserves to be remembered for more. Here's one summary of his research on Altruism, for example.